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Scott Beeson · Mar 7, 2016
The overwhelming consensus a few weeks back was to have the home page ordered by the latest posts, then posts with the latest comments, DESC. The filters are just doing filtering, not altering the sorting. The "Highest Rated" filter is those postings that are at least 4/5 stars. We might revisit this to make the filtering options sort differently.

I see.  I think revisiting sorting would be a good idea.

The next build has a new filter for "Unanswered" which shows all questions that haven't been answered. Each posting in the list will show the rating plus the number of comments and if it's a question, how many answers have been provided.

How are you going to filter "answered" questions when there is no answer mechanic?  A reply does not an answer make...

Scott Beeson · Mar 4, 2016

As a user this is not useful at all, sorry.

 

All I care about is seeing active, relevant content and other people seeing mine.

If I reply to a post from 3 weeks ago, unless someone is subscribed to that post or specifically searches for it nobody will ever see my reply.  This is a problem.

 

Edit: If the main goal here is a question & answer site and not a forum, then ignore everything I just said.  But so far, this is definitely giving more of a forum/discussion vibe.  Personally, I think they should be separate.  Paul mentioned having "Questions" and "Articles".  How about a third type; "discussion"?  Each type/category should and could have its own default sort behavior.

Scott Beeson · Mar 4, 2016
"MAX(PostDate, LastCommentDate) DESC"

 

I think this might be the problem, or the source of my confusion/misunderstanding in the other topic.  I did a quick example in Excel.  As you can see, the post with the most recent comment is still at the bottom.  I think the expectation of most users is that the posts with the most recent activity would be at the top of the list.

Feel free to correct me if I'm missing something.

 

Scott Beeson · Mar 1, 2016

So first off, I think Dmitry deserved to win, but I do have a question.

In this post, dated Feb 19th, I had 55 points.  On the 26th I posted asking about it and my score was at 50.  4 days later and my final score is still 50 (after a lot more posts).  

What's the deal?

 

edit: Just realized that posts to the Developer Community Feedback forum didn't count, which explains why my points didn't go up.  But it still doesn't explain why they went down.  :)

Scott Beeson · Feb 29, 2016

Oddly, I hate Java and that was my biggest complaint and headache with JIRA and Confluence :)

I agree that Confluence is (currently) an "Enterprise collaboration and wiki platform" but it is evolving, and with some of the very high-quality addons available I think it could have been a good fit for this community.  For instance, there is a very good Question & Answer addon.  

I just sincerely think Confluence is a superior product and though it may not have been the ideal fit I feel like it would have taken less effort to get it to a better point already.  

That's not to say that I think this is or will be a failure.  As I've said, it's progressing nicely and I'm confident it will be usable and valuable.  I was just curious as to why Drupal was chosen.